Hate for November

 Last day of November. Did i mention how much i am hating 2012? I'm gonna be so pissed if those mayans were right.I want 2013 to be the year of the stewarts. I want to know what its like to have a run of good luck.  Maybe i'm just to depressing for my own good but with few exceptions this has been an awful year. Fingers crossed that its gets better in December.

Diana's wishes

  Ok even though i'm having a horrible day Diana just made me smile. She told me that a month ago she made 2 wishes and they came true so now she could tell me. She wished for a dog and snow. Love that kid.

Snow and sickness

I went back to work today and it sucked. I'm still sicker than a dog and felt groggy all day. Then late in the afternoon we got the first snow of the year. I know we live in a country where snow is mandatory but would have been nice to have some advance notice. Boots would have been nice. So November ends like it started. Shitty. I'm about ready for this year to be over.

The Force is with us

 So i'm an excited little nerd. Remember i wrote about the new star wars movies? Well i guess some writers were hired to work on the new scripts. One of the writers was a guy by the name of Lawrence Kasdan. Why does this make me happy? Well not only did he write the best Star Wars movie--The Empire Strikes Back, but also my favorite movie of all time- Raiders Of The Lost Ark. As far as i'm concerned this guy gets a lifetime pass from me. I think that as long as there's no Ewoks in the movies then we are in for a treat.

Sick Jay--again

 Ok so i woke up so sick today that i had to stay home from work. I was up all night having trouble breathing and i hurt all over. Its awesome when you are so sick that your ribs hurt. Don't get me started on the coughing. I'm not a fan of being sick or staying home from work. I have to go in tomorrow even if i am bleeding from all openings. Yeah that was a pretty gross visual.

Facebook giveth--and facebook taketh away

   And we are down members again. We are still up a bit  but lost 20 members between yesterday and today. Sigh. We will get to 200 members someday. Oh yes we will.

This is heavy!

  Proud papa right here. So i guess Diana really liked the Back To The Future movies. She has been quoting the movies when she plays!  She was playing with her Littlest Pet Shop figures. One was saying 'what are you chicken?'' She made the other one say--"nobody calls me chicken!"  It was so cool!!  It was like having Marty Mcfly in our home!!  She has also been telling me she wishes she could invent time travel and she wants a hover board! Oh yeah she also drew the  alternate time line document that Doc drew in Back To the Future 2. It was so cool when she was explaining it to me. She rocks!

Thank you facebook!

  Facebook finally did something for good and not evil!  So few months ago a bunch of people got kicked out of our Get Your Geek on facebook group--for no reason. Anytime i went to add people back i would get a message stating i couldn't add a former member back--they would have to request it themselves. So i got a hold of a few people and they added themselves back. Anyhow i woke up this morning and all of a sudden 30 members were back! I'm not sure if that was everybody  that got kicked out but it made me very happy. We are three people away from 200 members! Very excited. Now back to the couch!

Sick day take 2!!

 Wow i'm having another crappy day. It was supposed to be a great day. I booked the day off just to spend the day with Kath. I had a rough sleep last night. Kept waking up, I had the chills. I woke up  this morning and usually on my days off i will go with Kath to take the kid to school. I felt  horrible. I was coughing up a lung and felt achy. Looks like i was going to spend the day on the couch. Before i could make it to the couch though there was a knock on the door. It was my awesome neighbour Batman. I'm using the word awesome sarcastically.  Anytime he knocks on the door my first thought is always-'oh crap what does he want know?' It's never good. On this glorious sick day he made small talk until he told me i should try and get our dog to not bark so muck. Its disturbing his family. First of all the dog doesnt bark inside anymore secondly he barks at squirrels when he is outside. So mighty Batman what do you propose i do? Go out side and make sure i hide all the squirrels so he won't bark? Ass. This is the same guy that thinks we have rats and hippos  living in our yard. F him. I never complain about his landing strip of lights outside signalling  the mother ship. Maybe  he should keep it down so i don't have to hear him and his wife going at it really loud. Douche.

 Anyhow i fell asleep on the couch with Elvis for four hours. What a way to spend the day. Kath let me sleep. She was definitely looking out for me. I still feel crappy and am already calling in sick tomorrow if i still feel this bad. Hooray!!

What a day

   What a day. Went back to work today--sicker than a dog. No offense Elvis. Felt groggy all day. Nose never stopped running. Some people from the head office came down. They were nice enough to buy us a pizza and lasagna lunch. Luckily for me the cold hasn't effected my taste buds--yet. Came home and went with Diana to walk the dog. We had to cut that short. Diana fell down and hurt her chin and knee. Brought her home and cleaned up her knee. Then i laid on the couch the rest of the day. Like i said what a day.

Maybe if Mr Feeny is on it

 I just read something awful. As a matter of fact it may signal the end of the world as we know it. Apparently there is a sequel to the tv series Boy meets world planned. Apparently its a bout the kids of the characters  Corey and Topanga.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Make it stop!!  My eyes!! why god why?

Sick man

 So my five days of vacation is done. What better way to celebrate than by getting sick! So not only do i have to go back to work tomorrow but i have a massively sore throat. Its perfect for talking to customers!! I am bitter. I'm gonna go have a big hot bowl of chilli. That should be good on the ol' throat.

Its running time for the Jaymeister

  Things were definitely cool with Elvis today. Man he gets excited when we go for a walk. As soon as i say the word walk he starts jumping higher than Diana. I ran with him for almost the whole time today. Diana said it was the fastest time she had ever seen me run. I realized it was the first time she had seen me run. I don't run. I'm not a runner. My legs might not be so forgiving tomorrow. I think this is gonna be really good for me. I was gonna try for more exercise after Christmas anyhow so might as well start now.

Video store open yet?

Oh dear Lord!!! The 5 dollar video store is still closed!  Oh the humanity. Why? I miss that store so much.I need to buy more movies that i don't have time to watch.

Did i mention i own a dog?

 Day 3 with Elvis. Less barking. Elvis met Merlin the cat. Didn't know Merlin could growl that loud. I took Elvis for 2 walks. I really think its gonna help me get in shape. He really is a friendly boy and he really loves Diana. He has become her shadow. We did Gygo with Kim and Trish, He was pretty behaved for it. He came down and ate all the cats food but he was pretty quiet. I really think this is going to work out.

Great scott!!

  So three weeks ago Diana decided that she wanted Saturday night to be movie night. She wants to watch a dvd and eat pop corn. So we have watched all 3 of the back to the future movies over the last 3 weeks and she has really enjoyed the, I had to explain a little bit to her but she pretty much understood everything. What an awesome kid. She has decided that we will move on to the Indiana Jones movies. I think i'll actually start her off with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It kind of reveals Indy's origin and  shows him as a kid and i think Diana will like that.

Hello Rochester

 About a week or so back we took a trip out to Rochester. You might know it as the former  home town of Kath and current home town of Kath's father and step mom. We hadn't been since May and we feel kind of bad about it. We used to go at least once a month. Anyhow we had a really nice visit with the fam. We also managed to catch an early evening movie with our good friend Rose. We saw wreck it Ralph which was really good. Had a nice meal afterwards and got out of there kind of late. I was considering calling in sick to work the next day but i made it. It was a really cool visit and we are talking about  doing it more often in the new year.

Elvis day 2

 Ok we had our first full day with Elvis the dog. He's getting a little more comfortable with us. He's still barking a bit. Diana and i took him for a walk at our local park and i feel like we bonded a bit. There was no barking the whole time we were out, He really is a good boy. Hopefully he'll see that we  really want him to be part of this family and we'll be nothing but kind to him. Our cats our hiding. Actually Starlight has been a bit braver. She was laying on the couch near Elvis. Diana really loves him. I think it'll all work out in the end. I still can't believe i am now a dog owner.

Calling Elvis

  So another four legged friend was added to the Stewart family today. We adopted a  7 year old half lab/half border collie. I can't believe it. Kath and i have always wanted to own a dog--since we were dating as a matter of fact.  Our daughter Diana was not a fan of dogs. Magically 2 or 3 months ago All of a sudden she was a huge fan of dogs. Kath and I decided we were going to look into getting a dog next year. We were going to do the research and find a dog that liked cats and kids. Easy task right? A few days ago our friend Trish mentioned on facebook that she was  moving to a smaller apartment and had to  get rid of her dog Elvis. Long story short Elvis lives here now. He is a nice dog and  loves Diana. He's still getting used to me and has barked at me a little bit. I know he probably misses Trish and has to get used to living somewhere new. Wish us luck.

Christmas party

   Day one of five days off in a row. Did some running around with kath. We got some comics and stuff. The highlight  of the day was Kath's work place Christmas party. It was the 4th time i have gone. By contrast i haven't gone to one of my own parties. Gonna miss my tenth paty in a row. Why bother now right? Anyhow i got to sit with our friends Kim and Nick and met a really cool girl that Kath works with named Shannon. Unfortunately as great as it was seeing  our friends,the meal that was served was horrible. The roast beef was really shiny,the vegetables were hard and the pop tasted like ass. The salad was good but its hard to mess up salad.To sum up it was disgusting. I'll go to the next one though.

Turkey Lurkey doo

Happy thanksgiving to my American friends. I'm thankful that theAmerican company i work with has given me the day off. Oh an I'm thankful i married an American wife so that i get 2 turkeys!! Life is good.

Barney is back!

  So 2 weeks ago i found out  that my hero Barney Bentall had an album coming out November 18th. I am slipping in my old age. Now it was cool that i only had to wait a week after i found out about the release but it was announced back in September. I remember in the days before the internet i knew the release date of  every album  and movie. I was up on things, Oh well. Long story short i picked up the cd and it is amazing. Its a little different then previous releases. Its very folk influenced. Lots of fiddle on it. Really no songs sounding like his older albums. Thats ok. I like when a musician can change album to album. Thats one of the things i love about Springsteen and Neil Young. I hope Barney tours again really soon. Still pissed  about the ticket mix up last summer.

Welcome to November.

 Hi and holy crap i haven't blogged in 20 days. What the h? I'm usually up on things. All i want to do after work now is relax and  eat supper. I don't hate blogging just haven't made the time for it. I know that's sad. Work has been tiresome this month. I have an extra three days off this week. Since i work for an American company they are closed on American Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Hell I'll take extra days off. The job isn't rocket science but I could use the extra rest, Sleeping rules! Gives me extra time to spend with Kath as well. Our schedules still aren't syncing up. Oh well. More to report later. Hoping to get in about 22 blogs in the next 12 days. Hope to reach that goal.